Adversarial security for the systems others haven't learned to defend.
ASEC is a Toronto-based offensive-security practice. We perform adversarial assessments, red team engagements, and consulting for Canada's defense sector, critical infrastructure, and enterprise organizations, attacking your systems before anyone else does.
Practice
Five capabilities. One adversarial practice.
Drone + UAV + Robotics Adversarial
Canada's only commercial adversarial practice for autonomous aerial platforms, ground robots, and UAV supply chains.
Adversarial Assessments
Network, cloud, web, mobile, physical, and drone platform testing from an attacker perspective.
Security Consulting
Threat modeling, maturity assessments, CISO advisory, and compliance readiness for modern organizations.
Security Training
Executive awareness, secure development, and offensive security training, including GraphQL API security.
ASEC Platform
Security-Testing-as-Code: continuous testing, attack surface management, and regression monitoring as a persistent layer.
"You've got to have a mindset of 'when' not 'if' you're going to be hit."
Nick Aleks, Chief Hacking Officer, ASEC. MapleSEC keynote, 2022.
Attack surface
ASEC's adversarial methodology maps every known attack vector across an autonomous aerial platform before a single test begins. From supply chain integrity to RF link spoofing, the threat surface is catalogued, prioritized, and tested systematically.
Nick Aleks
Nick Aleks is Chief Hacking Officer of ASEC and founder of DC416, Toronto's DEF CON chapter and one of Canada's largest hacker communities, now in its tenth year (2016–2026). He is the co-author of Black Hat GraphQL (No Starch Press, 2023) and Black Hat Bash (No Starch Press, 2024), and the creator of Damn Vulnerable Drone (402 GitHub stars), the open-source ArduPilot/MAVLink simulator the industry uses to train on drone-pentest technique. Previously Distinguished Security Engineer at TD Bank and Head of Security at Wealthsimple. He hacks websites, safes, locks, cars, drones, and intelligent buildings, and teaches others to do the same.
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